County Redistricting Plan Gets Tentative Approval

A Los Angeles County redistricting plan that would change representation on the Board of Supervisors for about half a million residents was tentatively approved Monday by the Supervisorial District Boundary Review Committee.

The plan would shift Azusa and Pomona from Supervisor Mike Antonovich’s 5th District to Supervisor Gloria Molina’s 1st District, said Don Knabe, chief deputy to Supervisor Deane Dana, who drew the map.

Supervisor Ed Edelman’s 3rd District, which now includes part of Venice, would pick up the rest of the community from Dana’s 4th District. The proposed map also would place the now-split Chinatown and Little Tokyo entirely in Molina’s district, and place all of Koreatown in Supervisor Kenneth Hahn’s 2nd District. The committee also proposed that Olive View Medical Center in Sylmar be returned to Antonovich’s district. The hospital was shifted to Edelman’s district during last year’s redistricting.